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Sigmund Freud's last surviving granddaughter died at the age of 97. Freud is considered the founder of psychoanalysis and one of the most important and influential scientists of the 20th century. "I'm very skeptical about much of psychoanalysis," she once told the Boston Globe. "I think that's such a narcissistic treat that I can't believe in it."

To many Americans, the rise of the “woke” must seem like a frighteningly realistic remake of the classic science fiction movie “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” It does not take much exposure to leftist college activists and their like-minded sympathizers to feel like a significant percentage of the population has come under the spell of a ruthless alien ideology.The forced resignation of The New York Times’s editorial page editor James Bennet by staffers who objected to his publication of a conservative op-ed, the push by Princeton University professors to create a committee to oversee “racist behaviors, incidents, research, and...

After President Trump posted the tweets shown below, the vast Trump vilification cosmos predictably sprang into outraged armchair psychiatry, citing the tweets as evidence that the 25th Amendment must be immediately invoked to remove Trump – a madman using insults to forge a path to nuclear Armageddon. But a funny thing happened just weeks later – and it was not nuclear Armageddon. Dear Leader Un arranged for the two Korean Olympic teams to march together in the imminent opening Olympic ceremony. Even the New York Times called that decision "[t]he most dramatic gesture of reconciliation between them [North and South...

Complete Headline: EXCLUSIVE: 'Hillary is lonely, has trouble expressing her feelings and yearns for an intimate relationship with a powerful woman,' claims noted shrink who puts the presidential hopeful on the couch Hillary Clinton is a lonely woman who has trouble expressing her feelings. [Snip] [Hillary's father] was disappointed in life and lied about winning a college football scholarship to Penn State. 'He was a 'bullsh*** artist', a family member once said, but that skill made him a good salesman when hawking the drapes and lace curtains that he manufactured for hotels and offices. Hugh was a bruiser at home...

November 1, 2014 11:55 AM "Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder" By Andrew Stuttaford Just when you think that the misery that climate change is bringing in its wake can get no worse, there is this. Grist reports: …From depression to substance abuse to suicide and post-traumatic stress disorder, growing bodies of research in the relatively new field of psychology of global warming suggest that climate change will take a pretty heavy toll on the human psyche as storms become more destructive and droughts more prolonged. For your everyday environmentalist, the emotional stress suffered by a rapidly changing Earth can result in some...

Where the Wild Things Are was the perfect fairytale for the post-Sixties era of navel-gazing psychobabble Maurice Sendak, author of a children's book so wildly popular that there was even a copy of it in the largely bookless house I grew up in, has died. He will always be remembered for Where the Wild Things Are...it will be the simple story of a naughty boy called Max who gets sent to bed and encounters various wild things, told in just nine sentences, for which Sendak will win his place in literary history. It is appropriate that Where the Wild Things...

If you read the biography of Mohammed in detail, you would realize that he was not exactly mentally stable. In fact, if he lived today, he would have been any physician’s nightmare…Do you have any idea the number of Phobias and Compulsive disorders that Mohammed suffered from? Here is my own psychoanalysis of the world's most influential person: Mohammed, the prophet of Islam.

In June 1985, Flora Lewis wrote in the New York Times that then-President Ronald Reagan said he had pounded the walls in frustration over the hostage crisis in Beirut. Given what we know about Reagan, it's not hard to believe that he would resort to such measures to express his rage. Now try to imagine Barack Obama similarly venting his frustration at the Republicans taking his agenda hostage for political gain. Hard to visualize, isn't it? That's no accident. Since being elected president, Obama has consistently displayed a cool demeanor, one that has confounded many of his former supporters. His...

All those years, all that money, all that unrequited love. It began way back when I was a child, an anxiety-riddled 10-year-old who didn’t want to go to school in the morning and had difficulty falling asleep at night. Even in a family like mine, where there were many siblings (six in all) and little attention paid to dispositional differences, I stood out as a neurotic specimen. And so I was sent to what would prove to be the first of many psychiatrists in the four and a half decades to follow — indeed, I could be said to be...

Let's take a shot at analyzing Hillary!'s obvious avoidance of making a public statement of the Palin choice.

Al Gore's not just a father of the internet. Not merely a savior of the planet. He's also a venerable psychotherapist. Ask Ann Curry.'Today' opened its show this morning with a clip of a British reporter snidely asking President Bush, at his joint press conference yesterday with British PM Tony Blair, whether he was "in denial" over Iraq.Curry kept the psychoanalysis going with this comment-in-the-guise-of-a-question to Tim Russert:"This has got to be a tough time for this president. We heard earlier on this program from Al Gore, earlier this week, his recommendation to the president not to take all of...

< today's joke... brought to you by www.iowapresidentialwatch.com Q: Why is psychoanalysis quicker for liberals than for conservatives?A: When it's time to go back to childhood, they're already there.

LONDON, May 28 — Who owns psychoanalysis? That question is at the center of the most recent battle here in the Freud Wars, the epic (or as the man himself might say, interminable) struggle over the legacy of Sigmund Freud, pioneer psychotherapist, cartographer of the unconscious and former resident of Hampstead, the leafy corner of Northwest London where the concentration of therapeutic couches per square mile may be even higher than on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Late last year a new group calling itself the College of Psychoanalysts sent out a letter inviting British therapists who met certain...

Howard Dean was interviewed on Boston radio station WRKO this morning (1/13/2004) during this interview he stated that the president needs psychoanalysis to get over his obsession with his father (at least he didn't use the liberal's favorite word: daddy). When he was pressed on his statement he tried to back pedal a bit and said "I think psychoanalysis is wonderful for everyone". Maybe it's just me but I find his assertions outrageous. Is Howard Dean so mentally disturbed that he thinks everyone is as warped as he is?

Dr. Freud assesses the mental (in)stability of Little Tommy Daschle. Must be Bush's fault! ; )